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of Montrose, 306; life of, 304 — 5; The Lord of the Isles, 1010; on magic and witchcraft, 322- 25; Marmion, 1010; The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, 305, 1010; The Monastery, 306; Old Mortality, 306, 308, 321; Orientalism in works of, 315- 19; patriarchy as theme of, 311 — 12; Peveril of the Peak, 306; The Pirate, 306; Quentin Durward, 306; race consciousness of, 317 -19; Redgauntlet, 306, 316; Rob Roy, 306, 311; Rokeby, 305; St. Ronan's Well, 306; St. Valentine's Day, 1010; and Scotland, 312- 14; Siege of Malta, 307; supernatural tales in, 320 — 21; Tales of My Landlord, 306; Tales of the Crusaders, 306- 7; The Talisman, 307, 315- 16, 318 — 20; and Universal History, 302 — 4, 308, 312 -14; Waverley, 305, 309 -12, 315, 317, 324, 566, 1010; Waverley Novels, 301, 303 -5, 308- 15, 321 -25; Woodstock, 306

Scriblerus Club, 108, 112

Scriblerus Secundus, 108

Scudéry, Madeleine de, 51, 88

Sea stories, 127

Second Reform Act, 495, 500

Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky, 239, 244; Between Men, 240 — 41

Seduction, 88, 93; in amatory fiction, 68–69; and prostitution, 77–78; as theme, 51–52, 54–55, 68–69, 91 — 92

Seeing. See Vision

Seeley, John: The Expansion of England, 562

Self-consciousness, 717, 974 — 75; in dreams, 600–601; in seeing, 536 — 37, 545; and sexuality, 543 — 44

Self-doubt, 708 — 9

Selfhood, 151 -52

Self-reflection, 37–38

Sensation novels, 479 — 81, 506, 995; as art form, 484 — 85; authors of, 504 -5; Brontë's impact on writers of, 363 — 64; imperialism in, 502 — 3; science in, 498–502; thematics of, 482 — 95; women and, 495- 98

Sensibility, 682; excess, 337 -38; gender and, 250 -52; role of, 165 — 66, 193; in society, 80–81; in Sterne's novels, 184 -85; in Tristram Shandy, 166 -68; in Wollstonecraft's novels, 258 — 59, 265

Sentiment: role of, 192 -93

Sentimentalism, 182, 187, 189, 191, 197; in Conrad's work, 690 -91; humor and, 183 — 84; role of, 192- 94

Sentimental novels, 181 — 82, 249; character changes in, 189- 90; education and, 190 -91; gender roles in, 195 — 97; and Gothic novels, 224 -25; heroes in, 186 -88; individualism in, 191 -92; origins of, 183 -84; religion and, 184 -85

Serial publication, 144, 552, 1003, 1012; of Dickens's works, 395 — 96, 996; of Trollope's work, 456, 463 — 65

Services: information, 109, 115

Seven Years' War, 149

Sévigné, Mme de, 88–89

Sex and sexuality, 6, 46, 75, 85, 89, 91, 149, 175, 188, 221, 233, 235, 239, 241, 261, 426, 510, 534, 543 -44, 620, 681, 751, 792, 901, 940; in amatory fiction, 52–59; children and, 591 -92, 605; and class, 535, 539, 542, 544 — 45, 551 -54; and death,

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843 — 44; female, 225 — 26, 345, 347 — 48, 357, 394; femininity and, 776 — 77; in Joyce's work, 782 — 85; Lawrence's views of, 729, 731, 737 — 39; in Lessing's works, 931 — 32; male, 377 — 78, 722; and race, 688 — 89; and rape, 61, 67, 69; and religion, 722- 24; in Scott's novels, 646 — 47; Sterne's views on, 176 -77; subversion and, 58–59, 92, 237; in Wells's novels, 670 — 71; women's, 202, 204 — 7, 218, 718 — 20, 793

Sexual aggression, 220 — 23, 253

Sexual desire, 634, 931; in amatory fiction, 54–55, 61; in Gothic novels, 234 — 35, 239; in Hardy's works, 534, 538 — 41; love and, 61, 339; surveillance and, 241 — 42

Sexual relationships: in amatory fiction, 53, 67–68

Shakespeare, William, 303, 398; Antony and Cleopatra, 312; As You Like It, 312; Hamlet, 398; Henry IV, 311; King Lear, 398, 948 — 49; Macbeth, 312, 322; The Tempest, 577; Troilus and Cressida, 312

Shame, 550 — 51

Shaw, George Bernard, 706

Shelley, Mary, 302, 331, 340, 999, 1015; domestic ideology of, 346 -49; 'Epipsychidion,' 345, 822; Falkner, 349; Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus, 231, 239, 242 — 43, 328, 346 - 49, 616, 1010; The Last Man, 349, 1010; Lodore, 349, 1010; Mathilda, 349; Valperga, 1010

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 509, 1010

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 12

Sherwood, Mary Martha: The Fairchild Family, 589

Showalter, Elaine: A Literature of Their Own, 366

Sidney, Philip: Arcadia, 75

Silence: Beckett's use of, 843 -44

Sillitoe, Alan, 895

Simcox, Edith, 444

Sin. See Original Sin

Sitwell, Edith, 661

Skinner, Molly: Boy in the Bush, 718

Slavery, 318, 350, 450, 991. See also Antislavery movement Slum fiction, 614, 623 Smiles, Samuel, 428 Smith, Adam, 510 Smith, Charlotte, 1009; Desmond, 265, 336; Elegiac Sonnets, 1010; Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle, 224, 265, 1010; Ethelinde, 224; The Old Manor House, 224, 265 -67, 272, 330 -31, 1010; politics in, 265 -67, 330- 31; sentimentalism of, 224- 25; social issues in, 330 -31

Smith, George, 461, 463 — 64

Smith, Patricia Juliana, 333

Smollett, Tobias George, xiii, xvii, 1, 8, 12, 20, 183, 398; The Adventures of an Atom, 144, 146 -47; The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, 144, 147 — 52, 1010; The Adventures of Roderick Random, 129, 131, 133 -37, 141 -42, 1010; Advice, 132; career of, 132 -33; Ferdinand Count Fathom, 141 -44, 1010; narrative structure of, 137 -39, 142 — 45; Peregrine Pickle, 133, 137 -43, 1007, 1010; picaresque fiction of, 132- 33; realism of, 135 — 37; The Regicide, 132, 136; Reproof, 132; satire of, 135, 141 -42, 146 -49; Sir Launcelot Greaves, 144 -45; society depicted by, 140 - 41, 264; themes of, 139 — 40, 149 -52; Travels through France and Italy, 144, 146, 170, 1010; worldview of, 127 — 28

Snobs, 409

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Snow, C. P., 895 — 98, 911; The Affair, 909, 1011; A Coat of Varnish, 910; The Conscience of the Rich, 910, 1011; Corridors of Power, 910, 1011; Death Under Sail, 904, 1011; George Passant, 909, 1011; Homecomings, 910, 1011; In Their Wisdom, 910; Last Things, 910, 1011; The Light and the Dark, 909, 1011; The Malcontents, 910; The Masters, 909, 1011; and meritocracy, 907 -8; on modernism, 904- 7; New Lives for Old, 908 -9, 1011; The New Men, 910, 1011; The Search, 909, 1011; The Sleep of Reason, 910, 1011; Strangers and Brothers, 909; Strangers and Brothers series, 908; themes used by, 908- 10; Time of Hope, 910, 1011; The Two Cultures and a Second Look, 906; The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, 906

Social action, 248 — 49

Social change: in Eliot's works, 430 — 31

Social Darwinism, 562, 473, 622, 687, 711

Social hierarchy, 193 -94. See also Class